Playing with acrylics

 

Small sketch with acrylics on paper

Acrylic paint on 40x40cm canvas "Fire on surface"

Acrylic painting "Wolf"

 Wolf, acrylic paint on 20x20cm stretched canvas.

The Frog

Started more than 1 year ago this little painting... now finally finished... here comes The Frog ... :)

Acrylic paint on 20x20cm stretched canvas

"The Frog"

Acrylic painting "Masajove"

Latest big painting acrylic on 50x70 cm stretched canvas, signed and varnished.
Inspired by paintings from Zanzibar

"Masajove"

Acrylic small painting "Muchomura"

Acrylic colors, 20x20cm canvas
varnished, signed,
created with palette knife only
a lot of fun

"Muchomura"

El Camaleon video

Here comes the promised video with recording of previous painting process...
No commentary this time, only speed up video with some music in background...

Quick sketch with acrylics "Bryle"

There was still remaining some acrylic paint on my palette so I've decided to use it for one quick and small portrait picture. Nothing fancy, just a sketch. I'm not sure why but I quite like the result... :)

"Bryle"

Acrylic painting "Andelicek" + video

My try to reproduce my previous digital painting with traditional way - acrylic colors...
I§m not very satisfied with the result, I was really trying to replicate the digital painting, but the light was quite issue. I know where the problem is but I don´t want to paint it again from scratch...

32 x 24 cm hardboard + acrylics

Process recorded and commentary in Czech language added...

"Andelicek"

Acrylic sketch "Barevnacka"

Aaaand one moooore... acrylic sketch in my sketchbook, I just wanted to use remaining paint on my palet before it will dry...

Barevnacka = colorful girl  :)

"Barevnacka"

Next Acrylic sketches

There was still some acrylic color remaining on the pallet after previous sketching session, so I was just continuing in sketching.
I was using some black and white reference pictures so colors are my invention... :)
Maybe you can notice cold lights and warm shadows scheme...

 

Acrylic sketch "Blue queen"

Acrylic sketch of this weekend. Experimenting with colors and skin tones in my sketchbook and the Blue queen was born... :)
The face is so small that I had issues even with my smallest brush. So it´s not very representative...
24x17 cm

"Blue queen"

Acrylic painting "Sutry"

This unfinished painting was hanging on my easel a looong time and I had no motivation to finish it.,,,and I was too lazy. I suppose that I´ve lost the initial idea and also passion for the scene disappeared.

Anyway, I really wanted to start something new and I hate to left unfinished work just like that. So this is it. 

Acrylics on 24 x 32 cm cardboard 400g/m2, signed and still need to be varnished...

"Sutry" means something like big rocks...:)

"Sutry" 

detail 

Acrylic b/w portrait sketching

I´m having fun with quick and small black and white acrylic sketches in my sketchbook. Not perfect, trying to play with brushes, focus on simplifying the form and values.

 "bw2"

"bw3"

Acrylic sketch self-portrait

Trying to practice with acrylics and focusing on values. I was using only Titanium white and Mars Black paint (and their mixes gray).
It was quite quick sketch on paper (in my sketchbook) with quick pencil line art,  it´s rough and messy, but I like it...

"Xichto2017"

Acrylic training sketches

I bought a new book about painting with acrylics with explanations of some interesting techniques. Nothing completely new, but nicely explained. So I´ve spent this afternoon with experimenting. :)

Here are my results, nothing fancy, just training sketches in my sketchbook.

 How to paint glass...

Using warm underpaint and contrast colors for portrait painting...

How to create rusty texture

Acrylic mini portrait "Tuareg"

...aaand next one.... small 14x14cm acrylic painting on hardboard from this weekend. I don´t feel cery comfortable with this format, maybe I don´t have proper brushes...

This is mini portrait according photo reference from some magazine about traveling.

"Tuareg"

Acrylic portrait of Rum

I had some free time today so I´ve decided to experiment i little... :)
Really small format 14x14 cm hardboard, acrylic paints and bottle of rum...Plantation...

Not a masterpiece but it was fun...

"Portrait of Rum"

Value study

I saw nice photo in a catholic calendar and I made this acrylic value study. Used just burned umber and 24x32cm cardboard...
Nothing fancy, I just wanted to share it...

  

Video for "Blueface" painting

Here comes the promised video with my painting process when I was working on the "Blueface" painting.
It is speed up  8x.

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts...

Acrylic painting "Blueface"

I had some free time this weekend so I made this quite small acrylic painting. There was a reference photo used as an inspiration. I really don§t know how exactly is this type of butterfly called, so I´ve created my own name - "Blueface" :)

This was the first session where I has been using the Mastersons Sta-wet palet - which I bought in US and bring it back to Europe ... And my first impression is really good. I like the palet paper, very useful.

Check some of my photos, there will be added also video with the painting progress - as I was recording my work. Still need to process it and share it online on youtube... soon, hopefully

Painted on artistic 24 x 32 cm cardboard 400 g/m2, varnished with glosy varnish and signed

"Blueface"

 detail

 framed :)

my palet